Fantastic Mr Fox

jjjjjjjjjj · November 30, 2009 02:41 AM

I'll admit I was wrong when I first looked at the style for it. I thought it was going to be awful and boring. The trailer made it seem like an Oceans 11 wannabe with some terrible jokes.

The actual story itself is really entertaining the way it's told. If any of you are familiar with Wes Anderson's films you can see his style of film making in this movie. If you're one of those people who just hate Wes Anderson I wouldn't really recommend this film to you. Also some people hate this film because it isn't that true to the book but I have never read the book so I'm just basing this on what I've seen. I really think you should at least watch it matinee because it really is a good well written film. Anderson's charm is there. Anyone seen it yet?

rtil · November 30, 2009 02:45 AM

never read the book but i just have zero interest in seeing it

funzop · November 30, 2009 03:37 AM

i think were the only ones that saw it
the animation bugged me at first but its great i liked mr foxs kid a lot because i was reminded of myself

emanhattan · November 30, 2009 03:58 AM

i want to watch it because everyone has told me it is great.
probably just suffers the same bad trailer curse as cloudy w/meatballs.

but tbh
a picture is worth a thousand words

and these pics

scream "this movie sucks"

funzop · November 30, 2009 04:16 AM

you suck asshole

ZekeySpaceyLizard · November 30, 2009 06:12 AM

ansel · November 30, 2009 06:37 AM

i'm gonna watch the shit outta this
just because mr fox is a cool guy
and because i'm a sucker for messy stopmotion stuff

MarcK · November 30, 2009 06:57 AM

It looks pretty nice. For real messy stop motion, funny, story looks neato, etc. I'll watch it and probably like it.

CVG · November 30, 2009 08:36 AM

Watched it. It's a good movie. The humor is witty, sarcastic, observational, and dry (only example I can compare it to is like that conversation of McDonalds in Pulp Fiction). Meanwhile the characters are all very good...and dysfunctional. "Fantastic" is a word used to mean "fucked up". One thing that humored me is the play with words or visuals....hard to explain one...hmm. Like if a character says "You look so happy that you're glowing" the camera cuts to them and the puppet is replaced by a plastic glowy toy of the animal. The puppets are pretty well-done but damn sometimes their faces are scary in a "taxidermed animal" way. Whenever they got really mad they bared their teeth and it looks down-right hellish scary haha (remember in 'The Fox and the Hound' when the fox is showing its teeth to the bear?? It's like that but as a taxidermy puppet with glass eyes). Overall, people need to watch this though....it's a rare film in the animation realm that goes in this direction. It's a unique movie you would imagine was done by an independent film company produced in a foreign country that would normally never see a US audience. It's not going to make a Nickelodeon Series, or become a Hasbro product, or tries to cater to an audience of 6-12yrs old. And that's why I loved it.

Mew_User · December 1, 2009 05:37 AM

Best movie of the year.

redmongoose · December 2, 2009 12:54 AM

I've read the books, and I really loved the movie
what I hated was the trailer for tim burtons alive in wonderland starring johnny depp
why tim burton?
why would you do that?
why on earth would this ever strike you as anything other than the worst possible idea you could come up with?
are you really that much of an asshole?

alice*

redmongoose · December 2, 2009 01:33 AM

if you don't want to be really gay and do that then I won't hold it against you if you don't

Necronomitr0n · December 2, 2009 02:16 AM

i love how all of jseed's topics go off-topic after a certain number of posts

MarcK · December 2, 2009 02:43 AM

No idea where the alice derailment came from but whatever.
It looks interesting to me. Saying "Tim burton's making a dark version of another movie using johnny depp as a main character." sounds annoying in speech and writing, but despite that it looks like a neat theater trip.

redmongoose · December 2, 2009 03:07 AM

Quote from: Malwhoa at least im not a gay johnny depp hater dude!

I'm sory if I insulted ur boyfriend

jjjjjjjjjj · December 2, 2009 04:18 AM

yay im not the only one who didnt like the alice in wonderland trailer
although i dont really care about johnny depp being in all of tim burton's moviesi really dont like the idea of having tim burton remake anything especially classics.
im sure tim burton will make it close to the book as possible but he did the same with charlie and the choclate factory and it didnt have the same charm

also it focused on johnny depp more than alice so yeah :/

lasse · December 2, 2009 07:12 PM

hes a pretty good actor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

redmongoose · December 2, 2009 10:00 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v6-T52zLO0

ZekeySpaceyLizard · December 3, 2009 08:57 AM

Quote from: lassehes a pretty good actor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

billy · December 9, 2009 05:15 AM

Quote from: REDMONGOOSEI've read the books, and I really loved the movie
what I hated was the trailer for tim burtons alive in wonderland starring johnny depp
why tim burton?
why would you do that?
why on earth would this ever strike you as anything other than the worst possible idea you could come up with?
are you really that much of an asshole?

alice*

loook how scaaaary this world is!

johnny depp!

you naughty naughty girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRIr6Bz15vM